CARLOMAN.

There is escape.

MARCOMIR.

What, for a child?

CARLOMAN.

[clenching his hand] Per Baccho, but my son
Shall never wear a tonsure.

MARCOMIR.

Time will prove!
You stand so free and noble in the light
Yet it is you who brought me to despair.
One cannot be a fool, one of God’s fools,
Unconscious of the ill in others’ hearts,
And not breed deadly mischief.

CARLOMAN.

I entreated
You would not come with me.